Subscription MMOs are generally those that restrict play to gamers who pay an ongoing fee, usually monthly, though shorter and longer subscriptions, as well as lifetime subs, do exist. Some free-to-play and buy-to-play games also include optional subscriptions.
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Hyperspace Beacon: Should you resub for SWTOR: Disavowed?
Hello, friends. I hope you don’t mind my calling you that. I do respect my readers. Thankfully, most of you are rational and thoughtful....
Pathfinder Online strikes out against item duping
Some players are finding out the hard way this week that Pathfinder Online isn't going to overlook item duping in the name of keeping...
Hearthstone offers a new hero for World of Warcraft players
Odds are pretty good that if you already play World of Warcraft, you have probably taken Hearthstone for a spin. The game is now...
WildStar’s Chad Moore: ‘There are still exciting days ahead’
Last Friday's announcement from Carbine about its layoffs and WildStar's cancelled China launch was doused in a double-dipping of PR-speak. For those who found that...
WildStar is definitely still launching on Steam
WildStar's Chad Moore reassured Reddit and Twitter today that the game's Steam launch is still on the way following last Friday's news that 40% of...
Wisdom of Nym: Materia melding on tome gear in Final Fantasy XIV
One of the big additions with Final Fantasy XIV's patch 3.2 was tomestone gear with materia melding slots. This is something very new for...
World of Warcraft outlines the state of PvP in the Legion alpha
The big change coming to World of Warcraft's PvP in Legion is a brand-new honor system, and like anything else that's been changed wholesale...
Working As Intended: The fate of the MMORPG genre
I don't think I'm exaggerating to say that this past weekend was a strange one in the MMORPG community, when gamers across the wide expanse...
Final Fantasy XIV welcomes players back to the game with a free login campaign
A great deal of things changed in Final Fantasy XIV with the most recent patch, from the mentor system to the Hall of the...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Hatching-Tide brings new barding, new hats, and new music sheets
Most reliable scholars of Eorzea agree that the second Calamity was ushered in on March 15th, when Hatching-Tide started in Final Fantasy XIV once...
Guild Chat: How to tactfully leave a guild
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, my little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I tackle readers' guild-related problems with the help...
The Game Archaeologist: The sad saga of Stargate Worlds
In 1994, a science-fiction movie called Stargate took the idea of alien portals that allowed people to travel instantaneously across the universe and turned it...
Camelot Unchained squishes bugs and improves performance in crunch time
The Camelot Unchained team is hard at work bringing the game into a beta state, and that means killing bugs. The good news is...
World of Warcraft CM Zarhym leaves Blizzard
Long-time World of Warcraft Community Manager Jonathan Brown has left Blizzard, according to a brief notice on his Twitter account. There was no explanation...
WildStar suffers major round of layoffs
Update: WildStar has allegedly suffered a massive round of layoffs as part of a "reorganization"; some sources suggest as many as 60 70 people...
WoW Factor: Levels and legends in the Legion alpha
The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion rolls on, with the vague hope that we might actually have a beta tag by...
EVE Online’s Project Discovery netted almost half a million classifications in its first day
First announced back in 2015, EVE Online's Project Discovery got underway this week. It's a science collaboration that rewards EVE players in-game for playing a...
Massively Overthinking: The state of WildStar
This week's Massively Overthinking focuses entirely on WildStar, out of whose devs we've been trying to get answers -- never mind reassurance about the game --...
Final Fantasy XIV’s newest patch brings The Feast to live servers
If you've grown weary of the PvP options available in Final Fantasy XIV, take heart that today brings you a new method for beating...
New and tweaked class specs arrive in WoW’s latest Legion build
The testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion is almost finished adding new specs for players to try out as the latest Legion test...
